Santiago Zabala

Santiago Zabala
Era Contemporary philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Continental
Main interests
 Hermeneutics
philosophy of religion
ontology
aesthetics
political philosophy

Santiago Zabala (born 1975) is a European philosopher (raised in Rome, Vienna, and Geneva) and ICREA Research Professor of Philosophy at the Pompeu Fabra University.

Career

Zabala is ICREA Research Professor at the Pompeu Fabra University, where he currently teaches contemporary and political philosophy, supervises Ph.D. students and directs the UPF Center for Vattimo’s Archives and Philosophy. In addition to an extensive speaking schedule at conferences, festivals, and art Biennales, Zabala is also visiting professor at Renmin University, IDSVA, and several other international institutions. Zabala's books have been translated into several languages and his articles have been published in The Guardian, Al Jazeera English, E-Flux,' 'The New York Times, ''Boston Review'', La Maleta, and The Los Angeles Review of Books

Critics

In 2017 S. Mazzini and O. Glyn-Williams released a book on Hermeneutic Communism published by Springer Verlag, Making Communism Hermeneutic: Reading Vattimo and Zabala, with critical contributions from 17 renown scholars from all over the world as well as Vattimo and Zabala's responses.

According to Hamid Dabashi "European thinkers like Žižek and Zabala, important and insightful as they are in their own immediate circles, are out of touch with these realities, and to the degree that they are they cannot come to terms with their unfolding particularities in terms immediate to their idiomaticities. For them "Philosophy" is a mental gymnastics performed with the received particulars of European philosophy in its postmodern or poststructuralist registers – exciting and productive to the degree that they can be."[1][2] Zabala's response to Dabashi in Al-Jazeera

Also Brian Leiter criticized Zabala on his blog (Leiter Reports).[3] Zabala's response to Leiter on Columbia University Press Blog.

Bibliography

Author:

  • Being at Large. Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts (2019). Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press.
  • Why Only Art can Save Us. Aesthetics and the Absence of Emergency (2017). New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Hermeneutic Communism (2011, coauthored with G. Vattimo) New York: Columbia University Press. Translated into Italian, Spanish, and Turkish.
  • The Remains of Being (2009). New York: Columbia University Press. Translated into Chinese and Spanish.
  • The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy. A Study of E. Tugendhat (2008). New York: Columbia University Press. Translated into Italian.

Editor

  • Gianni Vattimo, Essere e dintorni, edited by A. Martinengo, G. Iannantuono, and S. Zabala (2018) Milan: La Nave di Teseo.
  • On Philosophical Education, edited by S. Zabala. Special Issue of Philosophy Today: An International Journal of Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 61, Issue 2 (Spring 2017). With contributions from Judith Butler, Simon Critchley, and others.
  • The Emergency of Philosophy, edited by S. Zabala. Special Issue of Philosophy Today: An International Journal of Contemporary Philosophy, Volume 59, Issue 4 (Fall 2015). With contributions from Adrian Parr, Bonnie Honig, and others.
  • Being Shaken, (2014, co-edited with M. Marder) Palgrave.
  • Consequences of Hermeneutics (2010, co-edited with Jeff Malpas) Northwestern University Press.
  • Weakening Philosophy, edited by S. Zabala (2007) Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. Translated into Spanish and Italian.
  • Gianni Vattimo, Art's Claim to Truth, edited by S. Zabala (2008) New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Richard Rorty and Gianni Vattimo, The Future of Religion, edited by S. Zabala, (2005) New York: Columbia University Press. Translated in 16 languages.
  • Gianni Vattimo, Nihilism and Emancipation, edited by S. Zabala, (2004) New York: Columbia University Press. Translated in 6 languages.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Dabashi, Hamid (2015). Can Non-Europeans Think?. London: Zed Books. p. 6. ISBN 9781783604203.
  2. ↑ Al-Jazeera
  3. ↑ Santiago Zabala is not a competent philosopher


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